Sentence examples for setback by from inspiring English sources
But he played down the setback by saying, "Let's not get obsessed with hardware".
It is the latest setback by foreign investors trying to shake up corporate Japan.
He (or she?) provides the hero with his daily setback, by thwacking him on the head.
The French president, Jacques Chirac, has reacted to his latest setback by reshuffling his cabinet (see article).
Both had suffered their first real setback by getting knocked out of the cup in midweek, too.
THE Confucius Institutes programme, an ambitious soft-power effort by China to support education overseas, has been dealt a setback by one of its most prestigious American partners.
They could respond to this setback by rethinking, considering the possibility that the academic macro types at the Fed and elsewhere actually had a point.
His hopes of following his father into space were dealt an early setback by bad eyesight; instead he made a fortune as a video-game designer.
The deficit figure, described as a "big setback" by the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, will prompt difficult negotiations within his coalition government on additional austerity measures.
The outcome was also viewed as a setback by some utility executives who had hoped that Congress would set predictable rules governing carbon pollution.
Mardonius' fleet was destroyed in a storm while sailing around the tip of the peninsula, and Xerxes wanted to avoid a similar setback by building the canal.
